National Pork Producers Council officials while pleased with the recent USMCA trade agreement like Canada and Mexico want to see the U.S. lift steel and aluminum tariffs on those countries. NPPC’s Dave Warner says that will help make the USMCA work better. He says that would mainly help with U.S. pork trade to Mexico.
He says the overall remake of NAFTA through the new USMCA kept all the previous ag benefits to the U.S. and pork roughly intact.
Warner says building off USMCA, America’s trade negotiators can now move ahead with a bilateral deal with Japan and possibly even the Philippines which is a huge potential market for American pork.
Warner says last year, the U.S. shipped $100 million worth of pork to the Philippines and even more to Japan with $1.7 billion of pork exported there.
